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President Donald Trump, under fire over his handling of the coronavirus epidemic, announced on Monday the federal government would ship 150 million rapid tests to U.S. states and warned an increase in positive cases is likely in the days ahead.

The child died on September 8 following an infection caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic organism that breeds in the warm, fresh water of lakes and rivers and of poorly maintained swimming pools.

A grand jury in Texas decided Monday to take no action against a man who fatally shot an armed man who killed two people at a Fort Wortharea church in late December, prosecutors said.

President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, will meet on the debate stage for the first time Tuesday night in Cleveland. Millions of voters will get their first opportunity to compare the candidates' policies and personalities side by...

Kamala Harris urged voters on Monday not to be discouraged by Republican efforts to fill a Supreme Court seat before the election, charging it's the GOP's goal to make people feel like their votes don't matter.

A judge in Arizona has ruled that an Iraqi immigrant arrested on charges of participating in the 2006 killings of two police officers in Iraq will remain jailed until his extradition case concludes.

The rapid tests look for antigens, or proteins found on the surface of the virus. They are generally considered less accurate though much faster than higher-grade genetic tests, known as PCR tests.

A man has died outside an emergency ward of Kenya's largest referral hospital after he was not treated for hours by striking staff, a witness said.

A dispute over cutting in line led to a fatal shooting outside a popular haunted house in southeastern Michigan, police said.

Greek police are accusing 35 people all foreign nationals and all but two of them members of nongovernmental organizations of a variety of serious crimes for allegedly facilitating the clandestine arrival of migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos from T...

A Kentucky lawmaker said she will propose changing the definition of rioting after Democratic state Rep. Attica Scott was arrested and charged with a felony count while participating in Louisville protests for racial justice.

Former foreign minister Moctar Ouane was named as Mali's interim prime minister, state television said on Sunday, a move likely to trigger the lifting of sanctions imposed by the West Africa regional bloc in the aftermath of the military coup last month.

Pakistans Supreme Court is to hear an appeal Monday by the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl that challenges the acquittal of a Britishborn Pakistani in the gruesome 2002 beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter.

A senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies will be in a Canadian courtroom Monday arguing her extradition to the U.S. should be halted because her rights have been violated.

Australias coronavirus hot spot Victoria state on Monday recorded its lowest number of new infections in more than three months as the nations second-largest city, Melbourne, further eased lockdown restrictions.